Posted Aug 12, 2026 at 3:26 PM UTCNYoutubeFive words: Steve Ballmer Jumbotron Corruption Scandal.All you really need to know here is Pablo Torre and his team won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing how Steve Ballmer’s LA Clippers paid star Kawhi Leonard under the table through a tree-planting operation called Aspiration that never planted a tree. Same story, only this time it’s the world’s largest 4K stadium display. Incredible stuff.Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Nilay Patel
Five words: Steve Ballmer Jumbotron Corruption Scandal.
All you really need to know here is Pablo Torre and his team won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing how Steve Ballmer’s LA Clippers paid star Kawhi Leonard under the table through a tree-planting operation called Aspiration that never planted a tree. Same story, only this time it’s the world’s largest 4K stadium display. Incredible stuff. [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Ksw0IC4CQ]
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